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Cardiac Operations After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Friday, July 29, 2022

Submitted by

Mary Hammon

Source

Source Name: Annuals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.10.022

Author(s)

James J. Yun, MD, PhD, Osama Abou Saleh, MD, Jin Woo Chung, MD, PhD, Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD, Shinya Unai, MD, Michael Z. Tong, MD, Eric E. Roselli, MD, Douglas R. Johnston, MD, Edward G. Soltesz, MD, MPH, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, PhD, Samir Kapadia, MD, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, Gosta B. Pettersson, MD, PhD, A. Marc Gillinov, MD, and Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD

Cardiac operations after TAVR are increasing, and the interval between TAVR and operation is decreasing. Most cardiac operations are complex, high-risk reoperations, and isolated aortic valve replacement is rare. The findings in this study should be considered when TAVR is selected for low- to intermediate-risk patients, particularly with multiple cardiac pathologies not addressed by TAVR.